With his first horn concerto, and being barely 18 years old, Richard Strauss accomplished a delightful stroke of genius. Up to the present day, this concerto has been appreciated all over the world by horn players (and by others), forming part, alongside Mozart's masterpieces, of essential repertoire pieces for the instrument. Peter Damm, former solo horn of the Dresden Sächsische Staatskapelle orchestra and world-renowned soloist, not only performed this concerto himself in public more than 170 times, but also presented and published the fundamental results of his investigations concerning the genesis of this concerto. Its Urtext edition takes into account all the sources preserved and can therefore be considered as a reference edition. The orchestral score, accessible in the form of a practical study score, eliminates the innumerable mistakes of the first edition.
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